Research Group (MIT)

PhD Students and Postdocs

• Kwangjun Ahn (PhD, EECS, LIDS)
  (co-advised with Ali Jadbabaie (starting 2022))
• Pourya Habib Zadeh (EECS, LIDS)
• Yi Tian (EECS, LIDS)
• Xiang Cheng (PhD UC Berkeley) (Postdoc Aug 2020–)
• Hadi Daneshmand (PhD ETH Zurich; FODSI Postdoc Dec 2022–)
• Swati Padmanabhan (PhD UW; Postdoc Aug 2023–)
• Zhe (Jimmy) Zhang (PhD Georgia Tech; FODSI Postdoc Aug 2023–)
• Kai Wang (PhD Harvard Univ., Postdoc Aug 2023–Dec 2023)

Alumni

• Joshua Robinson (PhD Jun 2023, LIDS, CSAIL; co-advised with Stefanie Jegelka)
  (Now: Postdoc, Stanford)
• Tiancheng Yu (PhD May 2021, EECS, LIDS)
  (Now: Researcher, Two Sigma)
• Horia Mania (PhD UC Berkeley; Postdoc Aug 2020-Aug 2022)
  (Now: Researcher, Citadel)
• Melanie Weber (Visiting Student in Summer 2017, & March 2019; PhD Princeton Applied Math)
  (Now: Assistant Professor, Harvard University Applied Math)
• Chulhee Yun (PhD Jun 2021, LIDS, MIT; co-advised with Ali Jadbabaie)
  (Now: Assistant Professor, Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, KAIST, South Korea)
• Jingzhao Zhang (PhD Dec 2021, LIDS, MIT; co-advised with Ali Jadbabaie)
  (Now: Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University IIIS, Beijing)
• Alp Yurtsever (Postdoc: Jan 2020-Jun 2021)
  (Now: Assistant Professor, Umeå University, Sweden)
• Jikai Jin (Undergraduate student, PKU Math; Summer 2021)
  (Now: PhD student, Stanford)
• Jeff Z. HaoChen (Spring 2018, Visiting student Tsinghua University)
  (Now: PhD student Stanford CS)
• Zelda Mariet (PhD, Jun 2019; CSAIL, LIDS, MIT)
  (Now: Research Scientist, Google Brain)
• Chengtao Li (PhD, Jan 2019; CSAIL, LIDS, MIT; co-advised with Stefanie Jegelka
  (Co-founder Galaxir.)
• Hongyi Zhang (PhD, Jan 2019; BCS, LIDS, MIT.)
  (Research Scientist at ByteDance).
• Brice Huang (UROP; Jan 2019--Apr 2019; now EECS PhD MIT)
• Alp Yurtsever (Fall 2018, EPFL; Visiting student)
• Rajeev Parvathala (2017-2018, M.Eng., MIT)
• Lingfu Zhang (2015-16, SuperUROP, EECS / Math)
• Flora Tan (SuperUROP, EECS, 2015-16)
• Hayley Song (SuperUROP, EECS, 2015-16)
• Alexander Amini (UROP, EECS, MIT, Summer 2015)

Visiting Students

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External PhD students advised on some projects

• Sashank Reddi (MLD, CMU, now Research Scientist, Google)
• Yuxiang Wang (MLD, CMU, now Associate Professor, UCSB)
• Wei Adams (MLD, CMU)
• Ahmed Hefny (MLD, CMU)
• Mu Li (MLD, CMU)

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Master's Theses

• Kwangjun Ahn (Masters thesis; EECS, LIDS, MIT, 2021)
• Yi Tian (Masters thesis; EECS, LIDS, MIT, 2021)
• Tiancheng Yu (Masters thesis; EECS, LIDS, MIT 2020)
• Jingzhao Zhang (Masters thesis; EECS, LIDS, MIT 2019)
• Rajeev Parvathala (2017-2018, M.Eng., MIT)
• Chengtao Li (Masters thesis; CSAIL, MIT; 2016; jointly with Prof. Stefanie Jegelka)
• Zelda Mariet (Masters thesis; CSAIL, MIT; 2016)
• Johannes Kitschke (Masters thesis; RWTH Aachen; 2015; jointly with Prof. Paolo Bientinesi)

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Thesis Examiner / Ph.D. committee member

• Chenyang Yuan (MIT EECS)
• Curtis Northcutt
• Konstantin Mishchenko (PhD, KAUST 2021)
• Qinxun Bai (PhD, 2016, Boston University)
• Aaron Defazio (PhD, 2015)
• Álvaro Barbero (PhD, 2011)

Past interns and students (non MIT)

• Samaneh Azadi (EECS, UC Berkeley)
• Anoop Cherian (MPI-IS)
• Carlos M. Gudin (MPI-IS)
• Radha Chitta (MPI-IS)
• Namhyoung Kim (MPI-IS)
• Rashish Tandon (MPI-IS)